Here is one of my chocolate birthday cupcakes.
We have a plethora of that good German chocolate-style frosting to apply to it, made from scratch, but my brother said he was gonna try one with anchovy paste. Brothers being what we are, I had little choice but to do the same.
Do you think that this led to some kind of crazy umami-blast that brought a whole new angle to chocolate? Then you are wrong, and maybe you read food media too much.
No, quite unlike the miracle of bacon or prime rib coffee, this was just terrible. It tasted exactly like having one part of your mouth occupied by a perfectly good chocolate cupcake while a smaller but wilier force of anchovy paste occupied another. Somewhere along your tongue is the DMZ and they're just staring at each other from entrenched positions and waiting to see who'll blink.
Swallow and move on. Do not repeat.
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